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How underdogs will get promoted this year.

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Doing your job isn’t enough.

Working harder than all of your coworkers isn’t enough.

Having a college degree certainly isn’t enough, even if it’s Read the whole post!

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How to Derail your Productivity in less than 5 minutes.

September 15, 2011

I packed up my laptop, headed to the business office at my apartment complex, and made a plan to get some stuff done on my day off. But my plans were interrupted when I met Alberto (not his real name.) He speaks no English, so I thanked Jesus for the dozen-or-so years of Spanish class [...]

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Was that a Tumbleweed? 3 Reasons I’ve Been Mysteriously Quiet.

August 12, 2011

How does one go from a 5-times a week blogger for over three years to being the guy with the blog not updated in weeks? Simple: Turn his world upside down. When I was on staff with CCC, I used my internet presence to process life. I vented on the blog. I talked about the [...]

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You can’t afford to hire based on a degree.

May 23, 2011

If you are in the business of hiring people to work for you, and the first filter you have is for a college degree, you might be costing yourself money, time, and the best applicants. The tried and seemingly-true line (sold thoroughly to us–by educators) is that the single most important thing you have to [...]

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The Municipal Broadband Bill: My take.

May 20, 2011

My Governor Bev Perdue has until midnight to veto H129, a bill that some are saying “protects the monopolies of second rate corporate ISPs at the expense of fast, cheap, local broadband.” I hope she doesn’t. In the interest of full disclosure, I do work for a corporation that provides high speed internet, but I [...]

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Be Outstanding.

December 27, 2010

Ever been amazed by technology? Imagine these sentences in the context of your grandparent’s childhood: “I just facetimed with my uncle in GA and wished him a Merry Christmas.” Or “I like to play scrabble on my phone with a guy I’ve never met who lives in Seattle.” Or “So last week I tweeted about [...]

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Christmas Photos that Didn’t Make the Cut, Part 1.

December 9, 2010

I have a proposal (see how I segued from last post with that? Amazing.) for Mike Rowe of “Dirty Jobs” fame. He needs to spend a day taking photos of young children for Christmas cards. It’d make him pine for the days of cleaning sewers and inseminating pigs. Yesterday we took 98 photos to get [...]

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Happy (Diamond) Harbor Day.

December 7, 2010

On this day in 1941, we got attacked by Japan. On this day in 2005, I drove 7 hours with a diamond ring in my pocket to “surprise” the woman of my dreams and propose. I sang a song I wrote, asked her to marry me, she said yes, and I turned back on the [...]

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More Gospel Lessons from Starbucks.

December 6, 2010

“The lady in the car in front of you paid for yours.” It’s my favorite thing to say at work, these days. As the newly appointed official drive-thru guy at my Starbucks, I get to become an evangelist every time she comes through my line. I take the good news that a debt has been [...]

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Evangelizing Your Neighborhood Barista: a Guide.

December 2, 2010

The other day, a guy handed me a tract through the window at Starbucks. His intro line went something like, “do you like riddles? here ya go!” and he pulled the tract from behind the sun visor on his beige sedan. After he had driven away, I pulled it out of my apron pocket, and [...]

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